We are planning to use some APIs only available in the newest version (19.1.0) of Android Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html and will need the release servers to have this version.

Is there a reason that we don't use the v7 support library instead of v4? Our minSdk is r8, so we should be compatible with the v7 library. Are we trying to unofficially support r4+ versions?

Yes, they are actually very different. There are a few v7 libraries, but they only contain a few features: - v7-appcompat includes the ActionBar - v7-gridlayout includes GridLayout - etc... see more here http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html tl;dr: v4 and v7 (and v8 and v13 for that matter) don't contain the same classes. Only v4 has the features we need, (ie SwipeRefreshLayout).

The new version of the support library is available from http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html

Per IRC chat, Trev has graciously offered to work on this, (since he also did the recent android SDK) We'll likely do this by just updating the SDK we're using. Trev is aware of the desire for completion earlier (due to intern leaving)

Pending the review of [1], we will not need this upgrade as quickly or at all. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8406321&action=edit

Because we are lifting the source for SwipeRefreshLayout, we do not need this anymore.

We'll probably want this at some point.